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Originally Posted by issybird
The article below is a tad biased, but it's got a honking huge point just the same.
NaNoWriMo was gutted to an extent when the forums shut down and it has a new sponsor this year, ProWritingAid, which offers an AI functionality. To what extent is AI just one limited tool in a varied kit box and to what extent is it the onlie begetter? Is it true that "not writing your novel with AI is ‘classist and ableist’ "? Has NaNoWriMo has run its course?
https://pivot-to-ai.com/2024/09/02/n...6HhaEeTSQauGWA |
Saying that being anti-AI is "classist" makes no sense. ProWritingAid costs at least $7.50 a month -- and that's if you get the yearly option (with limited use of the GenAI features). Writing the story on your own is free.
Disabled authors have also been furious about this stance. They have been pointing out that they don't need AI to write. It's one thing to use AI for text-to-speech or for grammar checking, but this has been about GenAI.
Anyway, I think NaNoWriMo
truly fell apart last year -- when it was marked by a grooming scandal on the forums.
Here is some coverage of it
in a Medium article by a former Nano Municipal Liason. For some reason, most of the coverage of the grooming scandal was in
forums or
posts rather than in news articles.